| One secret of American lawmaking is that legislators and legislatures need lobbyists. |
| We, the People, are sovereign over utility lobbyists, and we can have the energy future we want. |
| Their members have staffers who can assess opinion by dealing with lobbyists and the press. |
| It's the result of speculators who gamed the system, regulators who looked the other way, lobbyists who bought their way into our government. |
| Campaign donors and lobbyists are working Congress to minimize and distort reform. |
| The international gambling industry has hired an army of lobbyists to stack the odds in its favour. |
